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Resources for HIV/Aids care in primary health facilities
Since 2004 a wellness programme has been providing the best possible care to people living with HIV/Aids in the Greater Tzaneen district of Limpopo, one of the poorest provinces of South Africa.Known as Khutšo Kurhula ("peace" in both Xitsonga and Sepedi), the programme provides comprehensive HIV/Aids care at the primary health-care clinic level, carried out by nurses in cooperation with visiting doctors and people living with HIV/Aids, and in doing so preparing the clinics for antiretroviral rollout.
A large number of valuable tools and resources developed by the Khutšo Kurhula team over the years are now available online for download.
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An overview of the history and progress of the Khutšo Kurhula Wellness Programme since its beginnings in 2004. Find out more about the programme's comprehensive HIV/Aids care at the clinic level, its partners, support groups, and educational initiatives.
Over the years the programme has expanded from four to 15 primary care clinics, with over 400 patients receiving care and 66 new patients joining every quarter.
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This document provides a background to Limpopo, in particular the Mopani district, which has the highest antenatal HIV prevalence in the province. It also looks at health facilities, the province's ARV rollout plan, and the challenges in the district, and outlines a plan to support the Mopani District of Health in Limpopo with ARV rollout in the district from 2007 to 2010.
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Twenty-one documents providing advice, guidelines, registers, clinic forms, patient records and more. To download, click here.
A start to getting your facility accredited as an ARV site
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A dialogue on the delivery of antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings, held at Maropeng, Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa, in September 2006. Organised by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières).
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Storytelling in the Waiting Room is a unique HIV/Aids awareness project implemented as a part of the Khutšo Kurhula Wellness Programme. A storyteller playfully promotes openness by telling educational stories about HIV/AIDS in clinic waiting rooms.
Carved wooden animals are the main characters, used to illustrate the story. This teaches people in rural areas about the complicated issue of HIV/Aids using a culturally sensitive technique.
Having reached an estimated 9 000 people, the stories have been widely received and judged informative by those who hear them. As one audience member discovered: "It is possible for a person to be skinny but not HIV-infected. The frog says he was born like that."
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2a King Edward
(behind the ChoiCe-Trust building)
0850 Tzaneen
Postal adress:
PO Box 1947
0850 Tzaneen
Phone: +2715 3074893
Cell: +2772 2836297 (Marga)
+2784 6450330 (Quionda)
+2783 2312011 (Gert)
Fax: +2786 5135199
Email:
Quiondap@hotmail.com
Marga.vintges@worldonline.co.za
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